DIY Skincare with Kids: Bath Salt
Read moreKids love DIY and there’s nothing better than creating something easy that won’t just make themselves or a family member happy but is also great for the planet (and your wallet!) In our DIY Skincare with kids series, we give you recipes in 4 easy steps that can be made with accessible products that are both good for you and that will teach your kids the insights to the wonders of natural skincare at an early age. Today – a quick one for relaxing – bath salt! Get out a mason jar , salt, dried herbs and essential oils. 1. Start with 5 tsp of crystal salt – add to the mason jar
Meatless Burger Patties
Read moreMonday. You don’t want the weekend to be over, but you know that starting the week off on a healthy note works well. Well, if all you can think of is a big juicy burger but don’t want the bads, you’re in luck! Charissa will show you that It doesn’t have to be all fats and carbs with a few adjustments – check her meatless (Monday) burger patties! INGREDIENTS 1 Tablespoon of Coconut Oil 3 Tablespoons of your flaxseed meal 1/3 Cup of warm water 1 Can of your organic black beans drained 3/4 Cup of your freshly chopped celery 1 Small garlic clove 1.5 Cup grated beetroot or carrot 1/3 Cup freshly finely chopped parsley 1/2 Cup of Sunflower activated 2 Tablespoons of Braggs Liquid amino’s or coconut amino’s 1 Teaspoon of chilli powder 1 Teaspoon of ground cumin and some Italian spices 1/2 Cup of quinoa flakes (they look like oat flakes) 1/3 Cup of Chai seed meal Add some black pepper to taste INSTRUCTIONS As you preheat the oven, 350°F (180°C), cover your baking sheet with parchment paper. Then start with your flaxseed egg mix, you can mix the flaxseed and water in a small bowl and set aside, ideally around 8 min for it to thicken. Then into a mixing bowl, relatively large, start adding the drained black beans and mash it, until you see a paste consistency form. Once the beans are mashed, take a skillet, add your coconut oil slight increase in the heat as you stir-fry the celery and garlic slightly until soften. Then start transferring everything to the larger mixing bowl with the bean paste and start mixing all the ingredients together until one lot of chunky paste has reached. Then start shaping your dough into 8-9 patties, make sure they are firmly packed to ensure the patties don’t fall apart when baking. Allow to bake for around 15 to 20 min each side, the key is here not to make them too thick. You need to flip them around in order to make sure they are baked both sides. Leftover patties, keep in the fridge within an airtight container for 2 days. You can even make a nice little lettuce bun and add your favourite ingredients, a great example is using the iceberg lettuce as “the bun”, then spread some delicious hummus between the buns with some fresh and or sun-dried tomatoes and perhaps a few slices of avocado.
Stress and Anxiety? 5 Simple Naturopathic Tips for your Children
Read moreImagine this scenario: you’re 5 years old and getting ready for your first piano recital. Your parents are so excited, but you feel completely nervous and could vomit at the thought of getting up on stage. An hour before your recital, your heart is racing, palms are sweaty, you’re curled up in a ball, and you don’t want to go! What could possibly help with this situation? A naturopath’s answer to this question: a holistic approach to this unique child’s needs! While stress is a normal part of our everyday life- we can still teach our children to understand their experience of stress and learn to manage it. Whether your child is dealing with daily nervousness, general anxiety, or a phobia, preparing your child to cope with stressors, and validating their feelings builds their skill set for emotional regulation. Oftentimes, children find ways to cope with stress on their own: such as sucking on a thumb, attachment to a toy, eating, screen time, etc. In this article, I’ve outlined a few healthy strategies to consider when helping your child calm their nerves and stress.
Why Your Kids Should Wear Organic Cotton
Read moreNothing can be more worrisome for a parent than a situation when his/ her child is unwell. Today, ‘allergies’ seem to be one of the major reasons for frequent sickness in children – these allergies could be from the food they consume, the environmental pollution that they are exposed to, viruses that have increased in number due to frequent travelling, the bad quality material used in toys they play with or even the ‘clothes’ they are wearing all day. Think of the moment when a child is born, the baby’s skin is so gentle, so pure and so clean that you wish not a spec of dirt comes on it. Don’t you think they deserve to wear the most natural, clean, safe and pure clothing which is free of hazardous, toxic and unhealthy chemicals/ dyes? The wrong clothing on the sensitive skin of children (especially during their initial immunity building growth years), can result into skin allergies by the touch of the fabric, respiratory diseases when they would breathe the fabric they are wearing or even some other health issues that may arise when they perspire and the chemicals enter their tender bodies. Dermatitis is an allergic reaction to clothing that occurs when antibody cells on our body recognize chemical structures of compounds used and found in clothes, they then treat them as foreign objects or even consider them as threatening. Because of that reaction, plasma cells will start producing allergic antibodies which find their way to different systems of the body. These antibodies will integrate with pro-inflammatory cells that line the skin. When they bind together, histamines are released; thereby, causing different symptoms of clothing allergy.
Green Coconut Power Balls
Read moreMaking your own on the go balls are great, pre or post-workout or even to keep in the fridge. It is suitable for the whole family! Kids over the age of 5 can enjoy the Good Greens powder, for kiddies under the age of 5 however, use the Kids Good Greens range from Nuzest. Yield: Around 10 -12 balls INGREDIENTS FOR THE BIT SIZE BALLS: 200g Large Chewy soft Medjool dates ( then pips removed) don’t use dry dates… it has to be the chewy and moist kind (OR 4 Good Green Stuff Bars from Nuzest + 4 Large Chewy soft Medjool dates) 2 Tablespoons of Raw Almond Butter Organic 1 Serving of Good Green stuff powder 1 Tablespoon of flaxseed meal 1 Serving of Nuzest Vanilla Protein Clean Lean 1/2 Teaspoon of Vanilla extract 2 Tablespoons of coconut oil FOR THE COCONUT DUST: 1 Cup of unsweetened fine desiccated coconut 1 Serving of Nuzest Good Green Stuff 1 Large Ziplock bag. INSTRUCTIONS In a food processor, add all the ingredients for the balls by first breaking the bars into small pieces, chop the bars in the food processor first until fine, once chopped add everything else and blend until you have a dough-like consistency and not too crumbly either, if it is a bit too crumbly then just add a little more almond butter to the mix. Once done and you’ve reached the dough consistency, you can start rolling your balls. When rolled out, set them aside. In a ziplock bag, add all the coconut dust ingredients. Take half of the balls you’ve made and add them into the bag, zip the bag up and allow to mix them by shaking the bag around once they balls are completely covered, remove them and take the other half doing the same. The balls will now have a soft snow-like outer layer! Once all the balls are dusted, you can then place your balls in a air-tight jar and store in the fridge. Personally, I like to keep them in the fridge for an hour before consuming. Mason jars are my ultimate favourite when it comes to keeping foods fresh, especially these superfood balls. Mason jars are key when it comes to locking in the freshness of the foods, plus it is plastic-free. I easily keep my mason jars in the fridge. For **date version if slightly more wet, sticky, then just add 2 Tablespoons of desiccated unsweetened coconut as the bars have a drier consistency than dates. As you will probably have some extra coconut dust left over, so if you do you can just keep it in the ziplock bag or pop into another jar and keep in the fridge. I often use the leftover coconut dust for smoothie toppings, yoghurt or even breakfast cereal toppings. Good Green stuff is scientifically formulated to be a one-stop multi greens, therefore, it allows the body to receive a larger scope of greens than some green powders, it has a unique vitamin and mineral profile, formulated to have at least 8-10 servings of fruit and veg per serving. Therefore loaded with antioxidants and alkaline greens your body can only benefit from this antioxidant bite-size ball, this beats the average chocolate bar or refined sugar “protein balls” you often find in some health clubs and stores.
Can you get Truly Organic Fruit and Veg in Singapore?
Read moreThe reason behind why orgayana was founded, came out of many questions. Questions that we couldn’t find the answers to or issues that were not transparent. The big one was ‘organic’. Is organic food really organic when grown in Singapore and is there any certification? What happens when organic produce enters Singapore? How does air-flown organic food last the journey? All this we set out to explore, so much so, that it inspired us to half of our name, but as it turned out – the questions were not that easy to answer. It didn’t have to take two years, but somehow it did. So here, on the two year anniversary for our first ever article on where to find the best online green food stores in Singapore – over to our specialist, Claire Chabrieres to finally answer our questions! We’ll do it in two parts – first “Is organic food really organic when grown in Singapore and is there any certification?”
Best Online Green Food Stores in Singapore!
Read moreSingapore can be a jungle when it comes to finding good quality and/or organic produce! Here are our suggestions to some of the best green online stores with a varied choice in fresh local and/or organic fruit and veg and + superfoods!
Pink Ribbon Inspired No Bake Hearts
Read moreIt’s breast cancer awareness month and my treat for you this week is for all of us to remember to support the strong women out there, who a battling this widespread disease. However, these heart-shaped chewy cookies are also a reminder to practice self-care, love, non-judgement to yourself as a woman, wife and mother. Often women, in particular, feel guilty when they think of providing self-care, as we don’t think of it as the top of our ‘productive’ list. Little do we realise, that it is actually the most productive must-do exercise in your life, having a balance in your self-care routine is key and allowing you to take time out for yourself. Self-care is a productive act that increases your self-knowledge of the goddess you are, increased self-esteem, improves your creativity and clarity of mind that leads to a calmer more balanced you. Now let’s get cooking! Yield: Around 12 hearts INGREDIENTS FOR THE CHEWY DATE BASE: 1 Cup Large Soft Medjool Dates * remove pips 3 Soaked or soft dried figs 2 Tablespoon Coconut oil 2 Servings of Nuzest Clean Lean Chocolate Protein 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract 1/2 Cup Walnuts **ideally activated or sprouted 2 Tablespoon of Almond Butter RAW CHOCOLATE TOPPING: 1 Cup raw Cacao Butter chopped ** see note 1 Cup raw unsweetened cacao powder 1/2 Cup Yacon syrup **see notes 1 Teaspoon Vanilla extract Pinch of Cinnamon *Optional is to make your own chocolate, or you can use a dark chocolate that is of quality, make sure you avoid commercial milky chocolates as these no longer really have all the good qualities that the actual cacao bean has, cacao is heat sensitive, therefore most cheaper commercially bought chocolates have been heated at extreme temperatures leading to the cacao to become rancid. Plus it has so many other refined sugars and transfers added to it. When making your own, the key is here not to do it in the microwave, we don’t want to overheat the mix. **Cacao butter is the fat from the cacao bean, therefore by making our own chocolate we add the cacao extract (powder back) always go for the cold-pressed raw unsweetened organic cacao powder. INSTRUCTIONS: First, start by adding the ingredients for the date base into your food processor, simple and easy, first adding the walnuts, chopping them to fine pieces then add your dates and all other ingredients. Once chopped, you will find a dough-like consistency, this is what you want, if it is too sticky then just add a bit of flaxseed meal or if it is too dry you can add a bit more almond butter. Start rolling your date dough out until it is even, then take your cookies and press the shapes out. Clear the excess dough like you would with normal cookie dough. A tip is to sometimes sprinkle a little bit of flaxseed meal or your chocolate protein powder rubbing it onto the wooden board prior to rolling as it prevents the dough from sticking too much. Once you have all your heart cut out, place them onto a non-stick silicone sheet on a flat surface, cover and put in the freezer whilst you make your chocolate. DIY YOUR CHOCOLATE: Melt cacao butter in a bowl of a double boiler Remove from heat once melted, then start adding your cacao powder, Yacon Syrup along with all the other ingredients. Mix well. Once mixed allow to sit aside and remove your hearts from the freezer, keep them on the tray they are (as you would have placed your hearts on some sort of silicone mat or wax paper, you can comfortably drizzle the chocolate where your like onto the cookies, pop back into the freezer for 1 hour. After an hour they are ready, you can store the excess cookies in an airtight container thereafter in your fridge. They keep for up to 1.5 weeks in the fridge. ** YACON SYRUP I prefer this as it is a form of a LOW GI sweetener, it also contains FOS a form of a prebiotic. Therefore feeding the good bacteria in our gut along with it being a low-calorie sweetener. You also don’t want to overpower the sweetness in the chocolate as the date-base has its own natural sweetness already. — The use of walnuts is key as they are an excellent source of antioxidants that can help fight oxidative damage within our bodies, including damage from “bad” LDL cholesterol, which promotes atherosclerosis. The papery texture of walnuts contains a high amount of polyphenols (Vit E as well as melatonin). Several plant compounds and nutrients in walnuts may help decrease inflammation
DIY Skincare with Kids: Lip Balm
Read moreKids love DIY and there’s nothing better than creating something easy that won’t just make themselves or a family member happy but is also great for the planet (and your wallet!) In our DIY Skincare with kids series, we give you recipes in 4 easy steps that can be made with accessible products that are both good for you and that will teach your kids the insights to the wonders of natural skincare at an early age. Now let’s get started one that we all love and that makes a great present – the Lip Balm!
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Meatless Burger Patties
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Stress and Anxiety? 5 Simple Naturopathic Tips for your Children
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Why Your Kids Should Wear Organic Cotton
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Green Coconut Power Balls
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Can you get Truly Organic Fruit and Veg in Singapore?
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Best Online Green Food Stores in Singapore!
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DIY Skincare with Kids: Lip Balm
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Meatless Burger Patties
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Green Coconut Power Balls
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Can you get Truly Organic Fruit and Veg in Singapore?
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A Mindful Christmas Market!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
The holiday season is approaching, and it’s time to to keep the magic of Christmas alive the sustainable way! Bring your family and friends down to The Green Collective SG on 23 – 24 November, and learn how you can enjoy the spirit of Christmas without the guilt.
Unique green gifts and merriment!
Thinking of getting that special someone a gift to kickstart their environmentally friendly journey? You’ve definitely come to the right spot be it zero waste or sustainable fashion. The Green Collective has something for everyone ! #friendsgogreen
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